Particle physicist Mary Katharine Gaillard was born #OTD in 1939. She and Benjamin Lee predicted the mass of the charm quark in 1974, and she was the first tenured woman on the physics faculty at UC Berkeley.

Image: Emilio Segre Visual Archives/AIP/SPL

*shrugs*

Literally every rich and powerful person in your society envisions a future for you that looks like Dubai. And in that story, you aren't gonna be one of the people eating fois gras in the luxury bar.

They aren't hiding it either. So prolly time to figure out if that's cool with you or if you intend to do something to change the present course our society is on. Because it ends in Dubai - and Dubai is not for, and has not ever been for, the labor class.

Joey Smallwood: The Man Who Brought Newfoundland into Canada

As Newfoundland's first Premier (1949–1972), Joey Smallwood led the island’s Confederation with Canada. His passionate campaigns and radio speeches earned him a place in Canadian history. 🇨🇦 #Canada #JoeySmallwood #Newfoundland #History

https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/joey-smallwood

RE: https://todon.nl/@burnoutqueen/116323737222962715

"Until all of us 'just get to exist', none of us 'just get to exist'.

Trans rights are the domino the fascists are pushing to knock down all human rights. Hold the door!"
#JoanMastodon

"HODOR!"
-Hodor

#TransRights #trans #HumanRights #TTJ #Hodor

⚠️ Do not move your account to mastodon.cloud. If you know someone already on mastodon.cloud you might want to suggest they move to a different server.

-Mastodon.cloud's admin hasn't posted since Feb 2023
-There doesn't seem to be any moderation, really awful bigotry is still there months after being reported
-The server software is very outdated and full of unpatched security holes
-Because of all the above, many other servers have defederated mastodon.cloud

#MastodonCloud #FediBlock

How About Some AI With Your Bluesky?

A tale of two social networks.

Last week some enterprising Mastodon account was discovered to be scraping posts to feed to an AI for the purpose of helping people navigate the Fediverse. The response was swift. The alarm went out. The account was widely blocked and shunned.

Yesterday to great fanfare #Bluesky announced, as a new corporate feature, all posts would be scraped and an AI would now help users navigate the ATmosphere.

https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/28/bluesky-leans-into-ai-with-attie-an-app-for-building-custom-feeds/

Night sky 10 years ago: “look, a shooting star!”

Night sky tonight: “look more Starlink junk burning up and rapidly seeding aluminium into our upper atmosphere with unknown consequences.”